The Linux Foundation has over 500 corporate members involved in over 70 member-sponsored projects. In 2016, the Linux Foundation convened over 20,000 people from 85 countries and over 4000 companies at 150 events around the world. Over 800,000 students from 215 countries have enrolled in Linux Foundation training programs. Who is driving this growth? Why do companies invest valuable resources in collaborative development? What have we learned along the way?

1. What in the World is
Going on at the Linux
Foundation?!
November 8, 2017

2. The Linux Foundation has over 500 corporate members
involved in over 70 member-sponsored projects. In
2016, the Linux Foundation convened over 20,000
people from 85 countries and over 4000 companies at
150 events around the world. Over 800,000 students
from 215 countries have enrolled in Linux Foundation
training programs. Who is driving this growth? Why do
companies invest valuable resources in collaborative
development? What have we learned along the way?

3. Open Source Development is Accelerating
23M+
Open Source
Developers
64M+
Repositories on
GitHub
41B+
Lines of Code
1,100
New Projects a
Day
10,000+
New Versions
per Day
Sources: Sourceclear, Sonatype, Github

4. Linux Evolves Faster Than Ever
4,300
Contributors
From 450
Organizations
10,000
Lines of Code
Added Daily
2,000
Lines of Code
Modified Daily
2,500
Lines of Code
Removed Daily
8.5
Changes Per
Hour

5. Linux has become the most important software in the world
99%
Supercomputer
Market
62%
Embedded
Systems Market
90%
Mainframe
Customers
90%
Public Cloud
Workload
82%
Smartphone
Market Share
2nd
To Windows
in Enterprise
#1
Internet
Client
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2017
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6. The Linux Foundation is a critical part of the tech
ecosystem
800+
Members From
41 Countries
80%
of Fortune100
Tech & Telecom
25,000+
Developers
Contributing
Code
100+
Open Source
Projects
$15.7B
Shared
Value
We have seen unprecedented growth in our projects
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2017
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7. Our Role Has Been Recognized Alongside Tech Titans
› “It’s one thing to create a great piece
of software. It’s quite another to have it
make a mark on the entire industry.
These are the companies and
organizations whose work has had a
significant impact on what others build,
how they build it, and ultimately, who
uses it.”
› SD Times Influencers: Apple,
Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, GitHub, Netflix, Red Hat,
Slack, The Linux Foundation
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2017
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8. The Linux Foundation is a leader in open source
collaboration
The media and the industry agree on the value provided by a neutral The Linux Foundation
“OpenDaylight arrives with some instant credibility because it’s hosted by the Linux
Foundation, the not-for-profit that oversees the Linux operating system, the most
successful open source project of them all.”
“Just like the Linux kernel, Xen enjoys contributions from a variety of different companies,
so a vendor-neutral organization to host development and collaboration is a big win for the
project.”
"The Linux Foundation has shown it can manage competing visions and egos, a bit like
when Phil Jackson ran the Bulls."
"Google is committed to advancing the state of computing, and to helping businesses
everywhere benefit from the patterns that have proven so effective to us in operating at
Internet scale. We believe that this foundation will help harmonize the broader ecosystem,
and are pleased to contribute Kubernetes, the open source cluster scheduler, to the
foundation as a seed technology."
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2017
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9. We have retired old rivalries
› Microsoft is a major participant in
Linux and our other projects
› Linux vs UNIX has calmed, in peace
› Linux has exceeded Unix market
share for the first time in enterprise
server market in 2017
› Open source now makes up over
80% of the code in most modern
applications
› We are in a “social coding” era –
largely ushered in by Github
(Torvalds also wrote Git)
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2017
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10. We have grown a diverse portfolio of critical open source
projects
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11. We Are Making Networks Agile, Affordable, and Resilient
2.5B
Mobile
Subscribers
Rely on ONAP
70%
Carriers Will
Deploy
CORD By 2018
1B
Internet Users Served by
OpenDaylight-Based
Networks
8 of 10 Most Important Networking Projects are LF Projects (Network World)
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2017
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12. We Are Enabling Automotive Industry Innovation
104
Members
of AGL
7 of 10
Biggest
Semiconductor
Companies
5 of 10
Largest
Automakers
8 of 10
Top Infotainment
Providers
#1 Best selling car in U.S. – Toyota Camry – Runs AGL
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2017
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13. We Are Innovating Cloud App Development & Deployment
10 of 10
Top Cloud
Service
Providers
4th
Highest Velocity
Project on
GitHub
- Kubernetes
100%
Largest Public
Cloud
Providers Back
CNCF
50%+
Fortune 500 Use
Cloud Foundry
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2017
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14. We are the home to the world’s most important web
technology
8M
Developers Use
Node.js Each
Month
100M
Downloads Per Month
Across JS Foundation
Projects
19%
of Websites use JS
Foundation jQuery
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2017
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15. We Are Changing the Nature of Trust on the Internet
153
Hyperledger
Members
16
Major Banks &
Financial
Exchanges
320
Developers
Contributing to 8
Projects
Global Healthcare & Manufacturing Leaders - Airbus, Daimler, Change Healthcare, Kaiser
Permanente
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2017
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16. Who do we work for?
› We are here to allow
industry to innovate
› We are here to
project momentum
and make markets
› We are here to allow
shared R&D
› Developers are the
core of our projects
› Core developers
make up a lion
share of
development
› We need to know
who they are. In
many cases by
name.
› We need to know
what they need to
succeed.
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2017
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MEMBERS DEVELOPERS END USERS
› Creating demand
for our projects
with users
› Creating a market
of products and
services around
them.
› Users for projects
helps our vendor
members.

17. The Linux Foundation and Other Orgs Continue to
Grow
800+
Members From
41 Countries
80%
of Fortune100
Tech & Telecom
25,000+
Developers
Contributing
Code
100+
Open Source
Projects
$15.7B
Shared
Value
We have seen unprecedented growth in our projects

18. The Linux Foundation broadens its portfolio . . .
Automotive
We securing
the internet as
home to world’s
largest
certificate
authority
providing 50M
free TLS
certificates.
Networking CloudSecurity Blockchain Web
We are home to
8 of the top 10
open source
networking
projects in the
world backed
by the majority
of global
network
providers.
We are creating
a portability
layer for the
cloud, driving
standards and
developing
reference tools
for cloud native
development.
Our Automotive
Grade Linux
platform is
backed by 12
automakers and
is either in or
slated for
production in
millions of
vehicles
worldwide.
We are creating
a permanent,
secure
distributed ledger
that makes it
easier to create
cost-efficient,
decentralized
business
networks.
We are providing
the application
development
framework for
next generation
web, mobile,
serverless, and
IoT applications.
Edge/Embedded
We are creating
projects used in
building the
majority of
embedded linux
distributions and
rationalizing edge
computing.

19. Linux Foundation Events Reach Millions of
Developers
25,000
Attendees in
2017
$500K
in Travel Funding
Provided
2.48M
Meetup Members
Across 5,500
Groups
100%
Proceeds
Reinvested in Our
Projects
Open source leaders from 4,000 companies and 85
countries

20. It’s actually open source software
that’s eating the world.
- VentureBeat
2015

21. Open Source Isn’t Slowing Down Any Time Soon

22. Code Club (Sandwich)
Choose a Framework
Open Source Code (~20%)
Write Custom Code
Custom Code (~10%)
Use Open Source
Libraries to Solve Problems
Open Source Code (~70%)
Open Source Code = ~ 90%

23. The Real Question is Which Projects Matter?
ValueofofIndividualProject
Number of Open Source Projects

24. The Answer: Projects With Sustainable Ecosystems
Successful
projects depend
on members,
developers,
standards and
infrastructure to
develop
products that the
market will adopt
PROJECTS
PROFITS PRODUCTS
DEVELOPER
COMMUNITY

25. Sustainable collaboration requires real work
GOVERNANCE
AND
MEMBERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
INFRASTRUCTURE
ECOSYSTEM
DEVELOPMENT
IP MANAGEMENT
o Incorporation,
Tax status,
Bylaws, Member
Agreements,
Anti-trust, etc.
o Ongoing
business
development
and membership
recruitment
o Technical
Decision Making
Framework
o Project Life Cycle
o Release Process
o Custom
infrastructure
using open
source best
practices
o Security and
reliability
o Marketing
o Events
o Training
o Code
Provenance,
license
management
o Trademark
management
o Legal defense
and Collaboration

26. A sustainable ecosystem engages developers, users and
vendors
Sustainable projects
have a developer
community whose
technology is used in
commercial solutions
that profit businesses,
who in turn participate
and reinvest back into
the project and hire
developers to work in
the community.
Community
Development
Products/Solutions
Bug Fixes,
Security Updates
Project
Governance &
IP Model
Commercial dependency drives a virtuous cycle of
commercial and community engagement based on
accepted governance and IP models

27. Sustainability is about longevity
sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property
of systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely.

28. Products have a lifecycle
INVESTMENT
TIME
Invest
Reap rewards

29. Open Source Projects also follow a life cycle
INVESTMENT
TIME

30. Our Biggest Bottleneck to Additional Growth is Taking
Industry Through This Cycle
Consumer
Participant
Contributor
Leader

31. Open Source Guides For The Enterprise
› Developed in collaboration with TODO
Group
› Leverage best practices to run or start
an open source project within your
organization
› Topics include: Creating an Open
Source Program, Tools for Managing
Open Source Programs and
Measuring Your Open Source
Program’s Success

32. Some of the Contributors
Andrew Spyker (Netflix)
Christine Abernathy (Facebook)
Chris Aniszczyk (CNCF)
Gil Yehuda (Oath)
Guy Martin (Autodesk)
Ian Varley (Salesforce)
Ibrahim Haddad (Samsung)
Jeff McAffer (Microsoft)
Jeff Osier-Mixon (Intel)
Joe Beda (Heptio)
Nithya Ruff (Comcast)
Sarah Novotny (Google)
Stormy Peters (Red Hat)
Will Norris (Google)

33. Health can include your internal compliance
process
› The OpenChain Project makes open source
license compliance simple and consistent in the
supply chain.
› OpenChain Specification identifies the core
requirements of a quality compliance program.
› OpenChain Conformance helps organizations
display adherence to these requirements.
› OpenChain Curriculum provides basic open
source processes and best practices.
› The result is open source license compliance
becomes more predictable, understandable and
efficient for the software supply chain.
https://www.openchainproject.or

34. If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It: Our Newest
Project
Community health analytics
open source software to help
answer the difficult questions:
› How can we know if this
project will exist in 10 years?
› What is the health of the
projects this project depends
on?
› Is there a diverse community?
› Are there licensing risks?

35. Extracting Knowledge From CHAOSS
CHAOSS will develop metrics, including:
› Project lifecycle
› Diversity and inclusion
› Risk and provenance
› Ecosystem impact
In addition…
› Develop a FLOSS reference implementation of defined metrics
› Integrate GrimoireLab, Prospector and Cregit into a collaborative framework
› Develop a better understanding of how contributions happen
Backed by:
› Red Hat, Bitergia, Eclipse Foundation, Linaro, Mozilla, OpenStack, Polytechnique Montreal, Sauce
Labs, Software Sustainability Institute, Symphony Software Foundation, University of Missouri,
University of Mons, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and University of Victoria, Laval University, and
Jono Bacon Consulting

36. Learn and adopt security best practices
https://github.com/google/oss-fuz

37. 100 Projects Granted CII Best Practice Badge
› Initiative launched in May 2016 to raise
awareness of development processes and
governance steps for better security
outcomes
› The badge makes it easier for users of open
source projects to see which projects take
security seriously, it isn’t a “rubber stamp”
process
› 1,000 projects registered for the badge
› While only 10% of the projects successfully
passed, every one of them made an
improvement to achieve a badge – which
indicates that we are truly moving the needle
on open source security

38. We Accelerate Sustainability Through Low Cost
Training
862,000
Educated
Through Free
Courses
Dozens
Diversity Interns
in 2017
250
Annual
Scholarships for
Students
50
Need-Based
Scholarships in
2017
We provide e-learning, skills based certification, and on site
training

39. Announcing: Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
› Announcing general availability of the Certified Kubernetes
Administrator (CKA) program and exam
› CKA program requires passing an online, proctored, performance-
based exam testing ability to solve multiple issues in a hands-on,
command-line environment
› For a company to become a Kubernetes Certified Service
Provider, it must employ at least three CKAs
› Initial class of KCSPs includes Accenture, CoreOS, Huawei, IBM,
Samsung, and many more Cloud Native Computing Foundation
and Linux Foundation members

40. EdgeX Foundry
› Open interoperability framework for IoT edge computing
› 22% member growth since April launch
› Major release in October
› Samsung, the world’s largest device maker joins to support
work on solutions that cross industrial and consumer sectors

41. The Linux Foundation® was created out of the merger of
open standards and open source software development
organizations
+ = ®

42. Open Source Software and Open Standards
Development are still complimentary activities in our
communities
Open
Source
Standard
Setting
de jure
Examples:
de facto
hybrid

43. › Engage
› Developers
› Users
› Ease commercial dependency
› Healthy Community: engage, support, contribute
and consume
› Not just code – user feedback, documentation
› Document your governance
› Inclusive, diverse and welcoming
› Strong IP practices – clear licensing, automated
practices
› Make security a competency
› Grow the ecosystem of users and professionals
› Think of FOSS project materials as “training”
› Enable users and professionals to identify, build a
community that identifies
› Hold meetups, events, other options to meet face-to-
face and share experiences
Summary: Keys to Sustainable FOSS Communities

44. Thank you

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